Coin receptacle



Patented Oct. 22, 1940 PATENT OFFICE com ancer'mcm Walter J. Herschede and Walter Eberhardt, Cincinnati, and William Foy Herschede, Forestville,

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o, assignors, by mesne assignments, to International Vehicular Parking, Ltd., Washington, D. 0., a corporation of Delaware Application November 12, 1937, Serial No. 174,178

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a coin-receiving receptacle and more particularly to a coin receptacle adapted to be utilized in parking meters and the like.

The principal object'of this invention is to provide a simple and relatively cheap coin receiving or collecting receptacle which may be removably placed in various instruments or devices such as parking meters,' telephone boxes and the like, and which cannot be tampered with, without that fact being readily evident.

A further object of this invention is to provide a coin receptacle having novel means thereon to receive a seal so that the same may be efiectively sealed to guard against unauthorized opening of the receptacle. v v

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.

These and other objects are attained by the means described hereina'nd'disclosed in the ac-- companying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a top view-of the coinreceptacle.

Fig. 2 is a cross-section taken on line 2-2 of F18. 1.

In the embodiment of the invention as shown in the present drawing, there is provided a box, preferably made of molded material, comprising sidewalls III, a bottom II, and end walls I2, and a removable cover or top I3. The box is provided with integral corner supports or braces I4 which also support the cover I3. The supports I4 extend to near the top of the receptacle and terminate at'a distance from the top which corresponds to the thickness of the cover I3. The box may have an ofiset I5, or may be made in any desired shape. The bottom II has a plurality of integrally formed lugs or legs I6 which serve to maintain the box in alignment with a coin-chute in a parking meter or the like and also serve as guard members for a paper seal which may be placed around the box between the legs I6 and lugs I9 and 2I on the cover I3, for a purpose to be explained later.

The cover I3 is adapted to fit within the side walls I 0 and end walls I2 and be supported by the corner supports I4. At its forward edge the cover I3 is provided with an integral handle I1 and a downwardly extending lug or shield I8. An upwardly extending lug or rib I9 is provided on the upper surface of thecover I3 parallel to the handle I! but positioned therefrom a substantial distance. One corner of the cover I3 is cut off as at 29 and a complementary formation is provided at the corner of the box so that the cover I3 can only be placed on the box in one position.

Opposite the lug I9, on the cover I3, there is provided an integral upwardly extending lug 2|. Adjacentto the lug 2I is an aperture 22 extending through cover I3, for the passage of coins therethrough. Integrally formed with the cover I3, and extending downwardly from the aperture 22, is a coin chute 23 comprising a slanting member 24, and a slotted lip 25. A plurality of slots (not shown) are provided in the lip 25. A rod or pin 23 is mounted in the shoulders of the lip 25 and movably mounted upon this pin 28 and inserted in the slots, are a plurality of trapezoid shaped guard members 29 or fingers,

which are weighted so that their centers of gravity are at 30, thereby holding the tip 3| normally against the edge of the slanting member 24 when the cover is in position on the coin receptacle. The guard members 29 effectually prevent the removal of coins from the coin receptacle by turning it upside down andattempting to shake coins. out through the aperture 22 in the cover I3.

It will be understood that the improved coin receptacle may be effectively sealed against unauthorized tampering by placing a strip of paper around the coin receptacle between lugs 2I and I9 on the cover I3 and between the oppqt tely disposed pairs of legs I 9 on the bottom II d gluing.the paperends. Any attempt to slide he paper seal off the box will be prevented by the,

lugs 2I alnd I9 and legs I6 and if the paper seal )5 is otherwise tampered with, it will be readily obvious.

In actual practice, a service man would be given a definite number of boxes, each having an encircling sealing band positioned thereon, between the lugs I6, I9 and 2|. The seal is intended to tightly contact or fairly closely follow the walls and cover of the box. The service mans duties include the exchange of empty and coin-containing similarly sealed boxes in certain parking meters or the like assigned to him. The sealed boxes, containingmoney, are to be delivered to the person authorized to open same, and the seal is to assure delivery of the coin-containing boxes to such authorized person, without removal of any of the contents of the boxes. Therefore, the paper seal must be tight enough to prevent partial lifting of thelid without injuring the seal. Therefore, the lug or shield I8 must be wide enough and long enough, to prevent the end of the lid carrying the handle I], from being liited relative to the box, and within the elastic limit oi the paper sealing band 40, to permit piliering of coins from the box without so rupturing or mutilating the sealing band as to be readily observable.

' Also, it must be impossible for the annular sealing band to be slid endwise oi! the box so the lid may be freely opened and after closing of the lid, again slide the sealing band back into its original position. The lugs it and ribs or lugs II and II on the cover prevent such separation of the band and box.

Incidentally, it should be noted that boxes, molded of such materials as Bakelite and similar formaldehyde or phenol condensation ,and

synthetic resin products that are desirable because of the ease and economy of manufacture thereoi into such boxes, are inherently incapable of adhesion by the ordinary, cheaper mucilages and glues of commerce and therefore it is not practical to merely paste or glue a sealing strip over the top and attach the strip to the side walls of the box. While there are some adhesives that will function for securely fixing the paper strips to boxes of the character used and shown herein, such glues are too expensive and involve such factors of solvents, volatility and the like that for practical reasons it is not economically desirable or feasible to use such materials or method of sealing the lids on the boxes.

The foregoing detailed description has been given 'for clearness oi! understanding only and no unnecessary limitations should be understood therefrom, but it should be construed as broadly as permissible in view of the prior art.

What is claimed is:

In a device of the character described, a coin box having spaced lugs on its exterior; a removable top for said box having lugs thereon lying in parallel planes with said box lugs and also having a shield member contacting an inner portion of the box to prevent sliding the top 01! the box' upon slight lift, and in addition having a coin receiving-aperture in a position outside of the region defined by the spaced lugs on top of the box and having chute means extending into the box from the aperture adjacent another inner portion of the box also to prevent sliding the top ofi the box; and arupturable sealing band encircling box and top aligned in a position between the lugs of box and top to maintain the top on the box against unauthorized removal of the same.

WALTER J. HERSCHEDE.

WALTER. EBERHARDT.

WILLIAM F! HERSCHEDE. 

